Thoughts on Reality

Obamaroll’d

The fact that American citizens actually managed to get over their paranoia, their racial misconfiguration and their apparent fright of actual change and elect Barack Hussein Obama as their next president was very reassuring. I live in Norway but the times have shown that America has more influence on us Europeans than we would like to accept. The latest economic crisis is just a new layer of topping on the cake, but I never doubted that a McCain administration would’ve been able to top the last eight years of unbelievable stupidity emanated from the Bush administration.

I might seem like a hater when it comes to the U.S, but I am not. I like the country but I dislike what its people do to it and each other. I dislike patriotism when it’s all about creating mass hysteria without a sliver of truth to it. more »

Excerpt from Chowder

Mung: You see, Chowder, women have these things in their bodies called “expectations”.
Chowder: Are expectations bad?
Mung: They’re bad for us because we can never live up to them.

• Note to self: Wonder if she\'s going to read this

What if…

… we started enjoying – and finding value in – everything, ridding ourselves of the concepts of like and dislike? Would the human race be able to handle this as a collective intelligence, when duality seems to be such a fundamental building block in our personal and social lives?

• Reflection: Sitting in a waiting room in the hospital, waiting for my girlfriend to go through an operation; I can still make this a good time by by using this little pause to reflect on things I usually never give myself time to think about.

What if…

… the cat on my couch is actually more intelligent than myself. After all, his life seems so much more relaxed and balanced.

• Note to self: I need to relax more.

What if…

… we stopped treating animals worse than we treat each other; after all, animals don’t tend to produce weapons of mass destruction.

• Hint: Saddam Hussein was not an animal